[support] Gone live problem

Mon Jun 18 17:53:29 UTC 2012

So it should be used and set correctly?

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Jamie Holly <hovercrafter at earthlink.net>wrote:

>  Yup
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> Jamie Hollyhttp://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net
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> On 6/18/2012 1:27 PM, Anthony wrote:
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> # $base_url = 'http://66.147.244.79/~polamor1/polamnew';  // NO trailing
> slash!
>
> Does hash comment it out? polamnew is the old path.
>
>  On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Jamie Holly <hovercrafter at earthlink.net
> > wrote:
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>>  You don't by chance have $base_url set in settings.php, do you?
>>
>> Jamie Hollyhttp://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net
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>>   On 6/18/2012 1:07 PM, Anthony wrote:
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>> Wow. When I comment it out I get this:
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>> http://66.147.244.79/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/accounts
>> when trying to go to the accounts page.
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Jamie Holly <hovercrafter at earthlink.net>wrote:
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>>>  Comment it out and it should fix it. I have a client with Drupal
>>> installations in sub directories as well as the root directory on BlueHost
>>> and none of them need RewriteBase set.
>>>
>>> Jamie Hollyhttp://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net
>>>
>>>
>>>   On 6/18/2012 12:25 PM, Anthony wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for all the info. As usual the devil is in the detail.  Let me
>>> try to explain exactly what I did.
>>> 1. I didn't want to move our email from yahoo so I started asking
>>> Bluehost how to go about doing that. They said and I quote* "Changing
>>> your name servers to Bluehost would interrupt your mail unless you change
>>> your MX records with us to point to Yahoo before you change the
>>> nameservers.I went ahead and made the MX record change on our end, you can
>>> change the nameservers at anytime.*"
>>>
>>> They also said (different dude 10 hours later).
>>> *"You can change the hosting of just the website to us by pointing just
>>> the a record of the domain to 66.147.244.79.  This will change the
>>> domain but not the mx entries."*
>>> 2. So I changed only the A-Record from yahoo to the ip address
>>> mentioned. Not the NS records on network solutions.
>>> 3. Then got the error mentioned. Got to home page but no further. 500
>>> errors.
>>> 4. Looked in the .htaccess and saw the line
>>> RewriteBase /~polamor1/
>>> I suspect that this may be wrong and I have to comment this line out but
>>> due to my ignorance can not justify based on logic.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Tony
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Jamie Holly <hovercrafter at earthlink.net
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> First thing to do - make sure that your computer is going to the correct
>>>> IP. From a command window:
>>>>
>>>> nslookup example.com
>>>>
>>>> If the IP is right then check your server error logs. A 500 error is not
>>>> a DNS error. It actually comes from a webserver (see RFC 2616). As long
>>>> as you are going to the right server, then the big hint will lie within
>>>> the server's error logs.
>>>>
>>>> Also make sure you have a CNAME set up:
>>>>
>>>> example.com. A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>>>> www.example.com. CNAME example.com.
>>>>
>>>> You need to CNAME www. to your A record or it won't work since www. is
>>>> viewed as a subdomain. This wouldn't lead to the error (you would just
>>>> get a server not found error - no HTTP error codes), but it does prevent
>>>> future problems of people who want to use the www.
>>>>
>>>> Jamie Holly
>>>> http://www.intoxination.net
>>>> http://www.hollyit.net
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 6/18/2012 10:46 AM, Joel Willers wrote:
>>>> > I was referring to his hosts file on his personal machine for
>>>> testing. Editing your hosts file makes you not have to wait for DNS
>>>> changes, as you're telling your browser what IP address it supposed to be
>>>> used. I use it to see what happens if I want a site to go live but what to
>>>> see the ramifications first.
>>>> >
>>>> > Joel
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>>> > From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org]
>>>> On Behalf Of Earnie Boyd
>>>> > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 9:40 AM
>>>> > To: support at drupal.org
>>>> > Subject: Re: [support] Gone live problem
>>>> >
>>>> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Joel Willers wrote:
>>>> > >  You can always change your 'hosts' file on your machine to test
>>>> how something works without actually changing the A record. Just add a line
>>>> with IP address and the URL you want it to take over. Just make sure you
>>>> remove it, otherwise you might not notice problems in the future.
>>>> >
>>>> > I don't believe the OP has access to his /etc/hosts file and the
>>>> provider will not do it for him.
>>>> >
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